Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99, is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff. The case was heard by the New York C
The East New York station of the Long Island Rail Road, seen in 2008
Scale similar in design to the one believed to have toppled onto Helen Palsgraf
The New York Court of Appeals Building in Albany, where the case was decided
Benjamin N. Cardozo, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and author of the majority opinion in Palsgraf (pictured in 1932 upon his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court)
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The Long Island Rail Road, or LIRR, is a railroad in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. The railroad cu
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
…leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United States Supreme Court justice. The plaintiff, Helen Palsgraf, was waiting at a Long Island Rail Road station in August 1924 while taking her daughters to the beach. Two men attempted to board the train before hers; one (aided by railroad employees…
The Long Island Rail Road provides electric and diesel rail service from east to west across Long Island
Station, Bay Shore, Long Island, September 1879., a collodion silver glass wet plate negative by George Bradford Brainerd now on display at the Brooklyn Museum
LIRR (Montauk & NY) RPO cover (TR27) for the railroad's 100th anniversary in April 1934
One of Grand Central Madison's lower-level platforms under construction in January 2019